What does a PM even do everyday?
Can PMs here please describe their day to day work? What kind of things do you work on? What scale of products/users do you deal with? Likes and dislikes about being a PM?
Not a PM so there will be gaps in my knowledge, but a PM is supposed to be like a mini CEO for a product, handling a single domain in a larger enterprise. Daily work includes:
1. Initiate discussion around improving product so that whatever metric (sales, revenue, user numbers) goes up. This includes both redoing an existing product or adding new features.
2. Connect with customers (not directly) to get an idea of what features drive growth and what users desire, conduct A/B testing alongside.
3. Be the single point of contact for multiple teams, design, engineering, analytics, business, finance, legal, sales, etc. This may look blown up but actually a feature requires multiple passes for compliance and good UX.
4. Manage timelines, as PM are single point of contact, they also need to work on product timelines for planning and execution.
5. Testing, there's also usually a product testing and sign off after QA is done, this is to ensure that things actually look good and comply with any new regulations that came during the execution phase of product.
While my answer sounds AI-zy, I have actually seen PMs in my current and previous workplace do these things. So yeah, speaking from experience here.
Kamlesh
Stealth
7 months ago
How do individual PMs work on features exactly? Just one feature shouldn't be that much workload right?
There's a lot of things that happen in the hood of a simple looking product, take for example a fairly okay sized booking platform for hotels, it can have multiple products like sponsored placement for hotels, customer review and rating services, listing management and verification services, payment services, internal services like customer service portal, and other internal features like recommendation systems, international law specific features etc. Now think about how Booking.com and other sites actually offer more than this, they have flights, buses and so on different verticals. When you consider these and then think of something like Amazon or Microsoft then you get many features to work on even for an individual PM.
samosa
Stealth
7 months ago
bhai wo bahut phenkta hai,
bahut jhuth bolta,
ghumta bhi rehta hai,
bas press conference nhi krta
Kamlesh
Stealth
7 months ago
Dono side se gaaliya khate hai pm,
On a separate note I saw a reel in which a dev and pm are arguing, then pm says bro your total comp is my base pay, then ding ding savage music and closes with advertisement for a quickly become PM course for xyz₹ , so looks like after DSA course it's next gold mine, if you're to become a hopium selling paisa hi paisa hoga 🤣
